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China’s Shenzhou-9 and Crew Return to Earth

June 29, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter China’s Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and its three-member crew has returned to Earth with a jarring, rolling ground landing in Inner Mongolia at 10:05 local time (02:05 GMT). While in space, the crew successfully carried out their 13-day mission, accomplishing a manual docking [...]

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Shenzhou-9 Crew Docks and Enters Chinese Spacelab

June 18, 2012

The crew of the Chinese Shenzhou-9 spacecraft docked today with the Tiangong-1 mini-spacelab and the three taikonauts entered the small spacelab for the first time. China becomes only the third nation to have a manned craft rendezvous and dock with another spacecraft, behind the U.S. and Russia. Commander Jing Haipeng led the crew into the [...]

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Shenzhou 9 Launches With First Chinese Woman

June 16, 2012

A Chinese Long March 2F rocket blasted off today carrying the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft and three taikonauts including 33-year-old female fighter pilot Liu Yang, China’s first woman sent to orbit. The launch was at 10:37 UTC on June 16, — in the early evening at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert. In [...]

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China to Send Its First Woman to Space on June 16

June 15, 2012

China will launch a three-person crew on Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 10:37 UTC (6:37 a.m. EDT) on board a Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, heading to the Tiangong 1 spacelab. The crew includes Liu Yang, the first female Chinese taikonaut. With her will be Jing Haipeng, the commander and a veteran of two other spaceflights and [...]

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Upcoming First Human Mission to Chinese Space Station May Include Female Taikonaut

June 11, 2012

The Chinese government has announced they will launch three taikonauts sometime in mid-June 2012, on the first manned mission to dock with their orbiting experimental module, and confirmed again that the crew might include China’s first female space traveler. A rocket carrying the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft was moved to a launch pad in China’s desert [...]

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